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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Shelley, Samuel, 1750–1808
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Drawings & Watercolors
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19th century
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canvas
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drawing
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historical subject
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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black
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Betty, William Henry West (1791–1874), actor
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Shakespeare in Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2003-02-15 - 2003-06-15)
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Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
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Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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James Northcote, 1746–1831
Master Betty as Hamlet, before a Bust of Shakespeare
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Samuel Shelley, 1750–1808
Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile
1804